Sources Chrétiennes Online
Since its establishment in 1942, the “Sources Chrétiennes” series, which is published by Les Éditions du Cerf (Paris), has been producing critical editions of Christian texts in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, and Georgian, accompanied by French translations, introductions, and notes. The database, which is the online version of the Sources Chrétiennes series, aims to facilitate the study of these texts and has expanded its accessibility through the online database, allowing selection of texts based on various criteria and targeted searches in both the source texts and the French translations available in the series. The introduction, apparatus, and notes remain exclusive to the printed series.
What Users Will Find
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Extensive Collection
Access an extensive collection of over 600 critical editions and translations of ancient Christian texts in multiple languages.
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User-Friendly Interface
Easily navigate our user-friendly online database to select texts, perform targeted searches, and access French translations.
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Enhanced Search
Utilize enhanced search options and multiple filters to perform targeted searches and explore ancient Christian texts with ease.
Reasons to subscribe
Exhaustive Coverage
Texts in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian and Georgian, translated in French, for a total of 615 volumes (out of 650 printed volumes already available ).
By 2025, the SCO database will cover all volumes by then published in print in the long-running Sources Chrétiennes edition project.
Enhanced search options
source texts and the translations are both searchable, and multiple filters allow for targeted searches, Far from being limited to queries for single words, the user can search for groups of words or for a particular expression, search possibilities can be extended by the use of operators, while queries can be simplified by using wildcards
Useful Tools
Instrumenta is a tool implemented in the database, that provides you with suggestions of translation and morphological analysis in a pop-up, for the Latin words encountered in the texts of the database.
you will have the option to click on to the corresponding headwords in the Database of Latin Dictionaries through the short definitions for Latin words.
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Recent Updates
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The latest update includes, among others, Cyril of Alexandria’s Festal Letters 26-30, the Apology of Aristides, and Saint Ambrose’s Letters 70-77. For the first time, the French translations of Syriac sources, such as Dadishoʿ Qaṭraya’s Commentary on the Paradise of the Fathers, are included; they will soon be supplemented by the edited Syriac text.
Related Databases
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For patristic texts, see also the full-text databases Library of Latin Texts and Patrologia Orientalis Database
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© Sources Chrétiennes, Lyon, and Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 2023 (source texts, French translations, third page images)
The notices on the background of volumes, texts and authors have been redacted by the Institut des Sources Chrétiennes, HiSoMA, CNRS and remain its intellectual property.
© CTLO and Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2023 (database structure and design)
© Apache Foundation (Lucene search technology; http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
Cover image: The Flagellation, Christ at the Column, 1598, Franz Fallenter, Metropolitan Museum of Art